Blogging

I know I know I have not been blogging all week and to make you hate me more I'm not even really going to blog anything today either... I went to sleep at 3am last night and woke up at 6 ... and now that I have finally gotten home again and only have one lecture tomorrow at 3pm, I'm going to bed.
Good night.

University and my blog

I am really confused and worried at the moment about my blog. University seems to be sucking all my time and while I am loving every minute of it, I am also worried that it has been taking a huge toll on my blogging. I am not going to stop blogging because I love having a blog, but I just feel guilty that I am not spending enough time on it, and recently I have no pictures for it!

I may in the long run land up changing my posts a little bit to make things easier for me to blog more often. Do more outfit posts, more random experiences, more going out with friends, more make up tut posts. This is all a maybe, on the other hand I will wait a while and maybe once I have properly started term them I will have more time and spend less time figuring things out.

Sorry for such a short update.

Student

So I am officially a student now! I registered at the University on Thursday the 2nd and I started classes tomorrow. I know, Friday is a weird day to start! But we are just having introductions sort of things so that we can have time to actually find our lecture venues with out worrying about being late! :)

I wish that I had something more to blog about and that I could blog more often but at the moment I'm just really busy with preparing for the new semester. I am so excited!

Concrete and Limerick poems

Soft and Gentle
     
        Soft and gentle,
      yet handle carefully
    or they'll be sharp and
      dangerously guarded.
      both symbols of love
            both baring
                fruit.
              Spoken
                 of
             through
                out
                the
               ages
              admired            and
              revered.   Cultivated
                and    trained
                for
               their
             beauty and
               their
              bounty.
                So
               much
               alike
           The Woman
                and
             The Rose

This is my concrete poem. Concrete poetry often forms the shape of the topic of the poem. In this case one of my main focuses is the rose and I hope that you can see the rough shape of a rose in the text.

Kitten, Pangaea

There once was a kitten, Pangaea,
Who had quite a terrible fear,
Of mice in the night,
Who gave her fight,
Which made her disposition quite queer.

This is my Limerick. It's just silly nonsense but I think that's usually how limericks are. This one was quite fun to write. I think that Pangaea would quite disapprove of me slandering her name like that. Heehee.

Poetry Challenge

Thomas and I were chatting about my poetry the other night and he suggested that I try some more formal poetry structure and try to develop my poetry more. Recently I have realised that I only really write in free verse.  *Challenge accepted* I shall list some poetry styles/forms (that's how bad I am I don't even know what they are called) and I shall try to write a poem in each one.


I will be posting the poems as separate posts, so far I have done two of them. :)

(The following definitions are all things that I Googled, none of them are my original descriptions!)
Concrete
Also known as "size poetry". Concrete poetry uses typographical arrangements to display an element of the poem. This can either be through re-arrangement of letters of a word or by arranging the words as a shape.

Rhymes
Rhymes are types of poems which have the the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words most often at the ends of lines. This technique makes the poem easy to remember and is therefore often used in Nursery Rhymes.

Sonnets
English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet. Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets are divided into two quatrains and a six-line sestet.

Limericks
Limericks are short sometimes bawdy, humorous poems of consisting of five Anapaestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of a Limerick have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.

Blank verse
Blank verse is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Free Verse
These pieces have some kind of structure, usually relating to syllables or rhythm, and sometimes interwoven rhyme.This makes the poem free to find its own shape according to what the poet - or the poem - wants to say, but still allows him or her to use rhyme, alliteration, rhythms or cadences (etc) to achieve the effects that s/he feels are appropriate. There is an implicit constraint, however, to resist a regular metre in free verse - a run of a regular metre will stand out awkwardly in an otherwise free poem.

You are welcome to do this along with me, you can post links to your poetry in the comments and I will go and read them
Challenge

1 Concrete Poem
1 Rhyming Poem
1 English Sonnet
1 Italian Sonnet
1 Limerick
1 Blank Verse
1 Free Verse

Here are some useful links to explanations:

quatrain: [link]
couplet: [link]
sestet: [link]
iambic pentameter: [link] and [link]
cadences: [link]

Gothy Storage Walkthrough

For Christmas I got a gift that came in a little orange box. I decided that the box would be really useful as storage for me but that the orange colour did not suit my room. I say that I "gothyfied" it but everyone's version of goth or decorating things varies so in reality I just made it black and decorated it with stuff that I liked. This is more of a walk through than a tutorial but I hope that it inspires you to decorate your storage to suit your room and style.

 A while ago Thomas gave me a couple of lengths of ribbon. Until this box I had not used any of it, when I decided to decorate the box I realised it was perfect for what I wanted.

 I sponged my paint on because I find, in my experience, that it doesn't leave that streaky look that paintbrushes can leave. After a few coats the over all effect is more smooth.

 I painted in the inside because I am more steady and accurate with a paintbrush than I am with a sponge.

one coat

two coats

three coats

 I measured how much ribbon I would need. Cut it, and then started gluing. I put the glue on the box first and then pressed the ribbon on to it. I also put extra glue on the ends of the ribbon in an attempt to stop it from fraying.

 During my gluing process I realised that the acrylic paint was not adhering to the box properly and would easily be scratched off. My long nails were doing a good job on it. So after touching up the paint my mother suggested that I try painting podge over it. I used the podge that she uses for her decoupage.

 I would advise if you are going to paint the podge on to try and seal it that you do so before putting on the ribbon. I was quite worried about the podge streaking but to my relief the podge dried clear!

glued on the flowers

Here the box is on my bookshelf in my bedroom. I'm keeping my spikers in it along with stuff that does not fit nicely in a jewelry box.

Posting forecast

I so many things that I want to blog about and every time I am getting to a day I feel that I can blog something more happens and I have even more to blog about! Well I'll make the most of my time while I can, obviously once term starts I'll have to slow down a lot, and you guys probably are not at all interested in my boring study life!

Posts that I have lined up:

• Another photo shoot with Siobhan Noffke Photography. Loads of photos in this one, and also a little guest appearance from Pangaea. :P
  
• Box decoration walk through. Gothying up some of my room a little. It's not really a tutorial more of a walk through of something that I did. Hopefully I'll do some more this week as well as I do not have anything up at the University this week. Except registration but that won't take ages.
  
• Poetry challenge that I have started on DA. If you want to see that before I make a formal post on my blog here is the link to my Deviantart account.
  
• Make up look from the other day when I was messing around.